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What is Knowledge Discovery Process in Databases

Chapter 54
Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends
“The non-trivial process of identifying valid, novel, potentially useful, and ultimately understandable patterns in data” (Fayyad et al., 1996).
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Ontologies Application to Knowledge Discovery Process in Databases
Héctor Oscar Nigro (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Sandra Elizabeth González Císaro (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch054
Abstract
Nowadays one of the most important and challenging problems in Knowledge Discovery Process in Databases (KDD) or Data Mining is the definition of the prior knowledge; this can be originated either from the process or the domain. This contextual information may help select the appropriate information, features or techniques, decrease the space of hypothesis, represent the output in a more comprehensible way and improve the whole process.
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